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drink it, pee it, purify the result.
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Create a new spell?
Greater Create Water
School conjuration (creation) [water]; Level cleric 2, druid 2, paladin 3
Casting Time 1 standard action
Components V, S
Range close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Effect up to 4 gallons of water/level
Duration instantaneous
Saving Throw none; Spell Resistance no
This spell generates wholesome, drinkable water, just like clean rain water. Water can be created in an area as small as will actually contain the liquid, or in an area three times as large—possibly creating a downpour or filling many small receptacles.
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The water's disappearance isn't an afterthought on the part of the spell's writers. It's there to make sure people can't do the kinds of things your players want to do. You're going to have to go outside RAW to get around it.
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I understand it's intentional, but RAW can be worked around. Also, this isn't the players doing it, it's me using it as a plot point (So I basically have free reign to do anything, even if it's cheesy)
As for siccatite, that's an interesting idea. After reading it, it might even be better to go for the hot version and evaporate it. It'd be a bit of a stretch, but plausible.
A decanter of endless water produces 30 gallons a round at max flow. Why not just use one of those and avoid all the mental gymnastics to cheese a cantrip?
You could have a whole group of 'good' priests gathered together and enslaved to make water as 'community service' for 'violating local laws' (and 'good taste')?
It never says what needs to consume the water. Fire consumes water when you boil it, so just build a distiller.
A decanter doesn't really produce the flow I need. I'm looking for enough water to keep a large kingdom running, which by my calculations would be around 76 million gallons per day. A decanter costs 4.5k gold to be crafted, and would produce about 2.5 million gallons per day, so you'd need 31 of them, which would come up to 139k gold. A first level caster kept as a slave could produce 115,000 gallons per day, which means you would need about 22 caster slaves to produce that. Assuming that spaces have no upkeep cost since they can expend a level one spell slot to be fully fed, that means it'd have to cost over 220ish gold to capture a caster for it to be less price effective then a decanter. In the setting I have in mind a 100 gold bounty would probably be enough to capture a Druid, even less if you hire a squad to do it.
Overall you'd need 661ish caster to fuel the nation, which would be 66,100 gold, less then half the price.
Plus it's a good evil kingdom plot hook.
Casters that can't operate 24x7 - and if pushed too much will collapse and die. They also need housing, clothing, food, water (for themselves) etc.
Decanters cost money once and are done. I'd just make magic illegal and put bounties on any caster heads - with perhaps a very high tax that allows a legal magic license....
I still say you should just go outside RAW and be done with it, but if you must have a technicality, someone could suck some water up into their mouth and then spit it out, and you could call that consumed if you really want to. Might want to purify it afterwards.
Why... do you need water you're not using?
This evil kingdom obviously isn't just putting the water into magic fountains for a desert-country's townsfolk to go get a daily bucket of drinking & cooking water out of. The spell would work for that.
Are you building a lake in a desert? Trying to **flood** another kingdom as an attack? At least one inquiring mind wants to know!
You are better off probably diverting a local stream/river via irrigation.
Or have a higher level spellcaster use weather control spells.
If used on crops, the plants will consume it. Why does it need to stay?
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drop the created water into a pool/stream/river and have one (or more) water elementals "consume" it thru a vortex, or maybe just thru the water elemental itself.
OH! and I think it would be better to have this created with a religious order rather than a group of slaves. Higher level clerics (more than level 1) could create more water, with a 5th level cleric for example doing the work of five 1st levels.
I like the water elemental idea- divert through a battery of elementals, have them consume the water and eject their own body water, keep going. Alternatively, get a giant single celled organism (like an ooze like an amoeba) and use it to take in water and then expel it.